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This is my feeling as well. I read the WaPo article and decided I’d write the song anyway. For one thing, it’s a funny idea. For another, I still feel like the spirit of the thing holds true, i.e. school lunches are unbelievably unhealthy due to the over-arching influence of corporate lobby in congress. But that sentence doesn’t fit as well into a song. :-)

So, to wrap it all up, you figured that it was just fine to further promote disinformation and unfounded ridicule, because it was funny?

Fair enough.

I’ve had a look at my children’s public school lunches. They seem to have a variety of healthy choices, greatly exceeding the school lunches I grew up with. Yes, given their own free reign at choosing ,they’re going to do what most adults do; choose what they like to eat, not what is the healthiest. Kids don’t much care for salads.

Politicians set the limits of what is allowed, the individual school administrators are the ones that choose what to actually buy and serve. If the school has a better budget, the kids get better food. But one thing that schools do know for sure; it doesn’t matter how healthy it is, if kids don’t like it, then they won’t eat it anyway.

nah, you’re probably right.
in the country where the quadruple or quintuple blissburger was invented,

about 20 ml of processed pulp from overripe, semi-rotten tomatoes with a lot of residue from all that glorious antibiotic/antibacterial/antiwhatever greenhouise treatments still incorporated , stripped (or is it ‘peeled’?) by applying gratuitious amounts af ammonia, surely must count as “vegetable”. nobody in their right mind (that is, the rest of the world) would buy this stuff to use it as food anyway, after all…)

I think the concern is, that with that one serving of vegetable goodness, comes a Lot of cheese, dough, and meat, in a system that’s notorious for cutting costs and using low-cost products. It’s Hard to cut costs when it comes to food and not loose nutritional value.